I’m sticking to a once a year oil change interval for the Corolla using Amsoil SSO 0w20. Shoot me an e-mail if you’d like to grab some oil as well: Did the standard drain, plug & fill with more Amsoil 0w20 SSO, car immediately felt smoother again. However, I did make one change – the…
A much deserved first UOA for the Corolla – not a moment too soon at 182,641 miles! Decided to go with long OCIs (1yr) and hit 16k on this oil change. Other changes won’t nearly be as long due to the Fit taking over some of the DD duties, but still a good baseline. A…
A lot of changes upcoming in the 2015 season for HS – mainly, the addition of several new competitors, such as the Fiesta ST, Honda Civic Si, CRX Si, etc. Full list of cars can be found here: http://www.solomatters.com/street_category_moves_for_2015 The basic idea is to revitalize HS it seems, despite our strong numbers at the 2014…
Special thanks to English Racing for letting me try out their new ACD Tune. I can happily say that this is so far the most effective ACD tune I’ve used, and I’ve tried many. My tune was the 3 mode tune, not their newer 6 map tune. For me, the evo spends about 4-6 months…
Second BSCC event of the year – decided to give the Evo a shot at this event, as I had some settings to test out on the car. Overall, this car is so much different from the Mini that it’s hard to adjust for the first couple of runs. It’s also tough, as I usually…
Up until about midnight the night before I had planned on bringing the evo to this event instead of the Mini, but given a host of factors – chance of rain, just changed all the fluids/wanted to drive it around and test for leaks, etc., I decided to take the Mini instead. It also means…
Sunday was interesting – while we ran Saturday’s course more or less in reverse, some key changes were made, resulting in an extremely fast section up – I was at 5100rpms in 3rd gear (~70mph) before I had to shut it down through the back stretch. Again the car felt fine, not much to report…
Stl Solo Event 8 was on Saturday, but unfortunately didn’t get to record ANY videos, as I left my camera at home. This is triple-y disappointing, as I ran in both the Mini and the Evo, as well as having a codriver for the evo – more on that later. Despite trying to get into…
Was really hoping ZROD would be the one for me, but not tooo crazy about the wear here. The iron was a little higher and there was some tin that popped up that I wasn’t expecting. Starting to wonder at this point if the Mini motor likes lots of molybdenum… Despite that, decently happy with…
Now that I’ve had some time to digest nationals and the rest of the season, thought I’d jot down some notes about how Nationals went & moving forward. Where I am comparatively: 12th of 18 from Nationals 2/3rds through my first/second “real” season of autox, I’m still far off pace. http://sololive.scca.com/HS.html From my Nationals “Pregame,”…
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